Word: crosser
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting him to the White House for dinner. Later in the year (1906) Roosevelt, looking for a U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, remembered the stream-crosser, appointed Henry Lewis Stimson who, in addition to being Sergeant Stimson of Squadron A, was also Lawyer Stimson of the Manhattan law firm founded by Elihu Root...
...Stream-crosser Stimson was born in Manhattan in 1867, is a graduate of Yale (1888) and Harvard Law School, is entitled to wear the Phi Beta Kappa key. He was unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York (1910), was Secretary of War under President Taft (1911-1913). As Colonel of the 31st Field Artillery he saw World War service in France...